Tumor Markers Flashcards
1846- H. Bence-Jones
Bence-Jones protein
1928- W.H. Brown
Ectopic hormone syndrome
1930- B. Zondek
hCG
1932- H. Cushing
ACTH
1949- K. Oh-Uti
Deletions of blood group antigens
1959- C. Market
Isoenzyme
1963- G.I. Abelev
AFP
1965- P. Gold and S. Freeman
CEA
1969- R. Heubner and G. Todaro
Oncogenes
1975- H. Kohler and G. Milstein
Monoclonal antibodies
1980- G. Cooper, R. Weinberg, and M. Bishop
Oncogenes probe and transfection
1985- H. Harris, R. Sager, and A. Knudson
Supressor gene
Alcohol dehydrogenase
ASSAY: ACT
CANCER TYPE: Liver
ALS
ASSAYY: ACT
CT: Liver
ALP
ASSAY: ACT
CT: Bone, liver, leukemia, sarcoma
ALP-placenta
ASSAY: ACT
CT: Ovarian, lung, trophoblastic, GIT, seminoma, Hodgkin’s
AMS
ASSAY: ACT
CT: Pancreatic, various
Aryl sulfatase B
ASSAY: ACT
CT: Colon, breast
CK-BB
ASSAY: ACT
CT: Prostate, lung (small-cell), breast, ovarian
Esterase
ASSAY: ACT
CT: Breast
Galactosyltransferase
ASSAY: ACT
CT: Colon, bladder, GIT, various
GGT
ASSAY: Liver
Hexokinase
ASSAY: ACT
CT: Liver
LAP
ASSAY: ACT
CT: Pancreatic, liver
LDH
ASSAY: ACT
CT: Liver, lymphomas, leukemia, various
Neuro-specific enolase
ASSAY: RIA
CT: Lunng (small cell), neuroblastoma, carcinoid, melanoma, pheochromocytoma, pancreatic
5’-NT
ASSAY: ACT
CT: Liver
ACP- Prostatic
ASSAY: ACT/MIA
CT: Prostate
PSA
ASSAY: IMA
CT: Protate
PK
ASSAY: ACT
CT: Liver, various
Ribonucleases
ASSAY: ACT
CT: Various (ovarian, lung, large bowel)
Sialytransferase
ASSAY: ACT
CT: Breast, colon, lung
tdt
ASSAY: ACT
CT: Leukemia
Thymidine kinase
ASSAY: RIA/ACT
CT: Various, leukemia, lymphomas, lung (small cell)
ACTH
CANCER TYPE: Cushing’s syndrome, lung (small cell)
ADH
CANCER TYPE: Lung (small cell), adrenal cortex, pancreatic, duodenal
Bombesin
CANCER TYPE: Lung (small cell)
Calcitonin
CANCER TYPE: Medullary thyroid
Gastrin
CANCER TYPE: Glucagon
GH
CANCER TYPE: Pituitary adenoma, renal, lung
hCG
CANCER TYPE: Embryonal, choriocarcinoma, testicular (nonseminomas)
Human placental lactogen
CANCER TYPE: Trophoblastic, gonads, lung, breast
Neurophysin
CANCER TYPE: Lung (samll-cell)
PTH
CANCER TYPE: Liver, renal, breast, lung, various
PRL
CANCER TYPE: Pituitary adenoma, renal, lung
Vasoactive intestinal peptide
CANCER TYPE: Pancrease, bronchogenic, pheochromocytoma, neuroblastoma
AFP
NATURE: Glycoprotein, 70 kd, 4% CHO
CANCER TYPE: Hepatocellular, germ cell (nonseminoma)
b- Oncofetal antigen
NATURE: Glycoprotein, 80 kd
CANCER TYPE: Colon
Carcinofetal ferritin
NATURE: Glycoprotein, 600 kd
CANCER TYPE: Liver
CEA
NATURE: Glycoprotein, 22 kd, 50% CHO
CANCER TYPE: Colorectal, GIT, pancreatic, lung, breast
Pancreatic oncofetal
NATURE: Glycoprotin, 40 kd
CANCER TYPE: Pancreatic
Squamous cel antigen
NATURE: Glycoprotein, 44-48 kd
CANCER TYPE: Cervical, lung, skin, head & neck (squamous)
Tennesse antigen
NATURE: Glycoprotein, 100 kd
CANCER TYPE: Colon, GIT, bladder
Tissue polypeptide antigen
NATURE: Cytokeratins 8, 18, 19
CANCER TYPE: Various (breast, colorectal, ovarian, bladder)
CA 125
Ag & SOURCE: GP, >200kd, OVCA 433
Ab: OC 125
CANCER TYPE: Ovarian endometrial
CA 15-3
Ag & Source: GP, 400kd, membrane-enriched BrCa
Ab: DF3 & 115D8
CANCER TYPE: Breast, ovarian
CA 549
Ag & Source: HMW GP
Ab: BC4E549, BC4N154
CANCER TYPE: Breast, ovarian
CA 27, 29
Ag & Source: HMW GP
Ab: B27.29
CANCER TYPE: Breast
MCA
Ag & Source: 350-kd GP
Ab: b-12
CANCER TYPE: Breast, ovarian
DU-PAN-2
Ag & Source: Mucin, 1000-kd peptide epitope
Ab: DU-PAN-2
CANCER TYPE: Pancreatic, ovarian, GIT, lung
CA A9-9
Ab & Source: Sialylated Le^xa, SW-1116 colon CA
Ab: 19-9
CANCER TYPE: Pancreatic, GIT, hepatic
CA 19-5
Ab & Source: Le^a & Sialylated Le^ag
Ab: 19-5
CANCER TYPE: Pancreatic, GIT, ovarian
CA 50
Ab & Source: Sialylated Le^a and afucosyl
Ab: C50
CANCER TYPE: Pancreatic, GIT, colon
CA 72-4
Ab & Source: Sialylated Tn
Ab: B27.3, CC49
CANCER TYPE: Ovarian, breast, GIT, colon
CA 242
Ab & Source: Sialylated CHO
Ab: C242
CANCER TYPE: GIT, pancreatic
b2- Microglobulin
NATURE: 11 kd
CANCER TYPE: Multiple myeloma, B-cell lymphoma, CLL, Waldenstron’s macroglobulinemia
C-peptide
NATURE: 3.6 kd
CANCER TYPE: Insulinoma
Ferritin
NATURE: 450 kd Fe-binding protein
CANCER TYPE: Liver, lung, breast, leukemia
Immunoglobulin
NATURE: 160-900 kd, 3-12% CHO
CANCER TYPE: Multiple myeloma, lymphomas
Melanoma-associated antigen
NATURE: 90-240 kd
CANCER TYPE: Melanoma
Pancreas-associated antigen
NATURE: 100 kd, 20% CHO
CANCER TYPE: Pancreatic, stomach
Pregnancy-specific protein 1
NATURE: 10 kd, 30% CHO
CANCER TYPE: Trophoblastic, germ cell
Prothrombin presursor
NATURE: Des-r-carboxy prothrombin
CANCER TYPE: Hepatocellular
Tumor-associated trypsin-inhibitor
NATURE: 6 kd-polypeptide
CANCER TYPE: Lung, GIT, ovarian
Estrogen & progesterone receptors
NATURE: (Tissue)
CANCER TYPE: Breast
Cathecholamine metabolites
NATURE: (Urine) VMA, HVA, metanephrines
CANCER TYPE: Neuroblastma, pheochromocytoma
Hydroxyproline
NATURE: (Urine)
CANCER TYPE: Bone metastasis (breast), multiple myeloma
Lipid-associated sialic acid
NATURE: Sialic acid
CANCER TYPE: GIT, lung, rheumatoid
Polyamine
NATURE: (CSF), (URINE)
CANCER TYPE: Brain, Various
N-ras mutation
FUNCTION: Signal transduction
PRODUCT: GDP/GTP binding protein
TYPE OF CANCER: Acute myeloid leukemia neuroblastoma
K-ras mutation
FUNCTION: Signal transduction
PRODUCT: GDP/GTP binding protein
TYPE OF CANCER: Leukemia, lyphoma
c-myc translocation
FUNCTION: Transcription regulation
PRODUCT: Binds to DNA
TYPE OF CANCER: B and T lymphoma, small cell lung carcinoma
c-erb B-2 amplification
FUNCTION: Growth receptor
PRODUCT: Tyrosine kinase
TYPE OF CANCER: Breast, ovarian, gastrointestinal
c-ab/bcr translocation
FUNCTION: Signal transduction
PRODUCT: Tyrosine kinase
TYPE OF CANCER: Chronic myelocytic leukemia
N-myc amplification
FUNCTION: Transcription regulation
PRODUCT: Binds to DNA
TYPE OF CANCER: Neuroendocrine
bcl-2
FUNCTION: Blocks apoptosis
PRODUCT: Mitchondrial membrane protein
TYPE OF CANCER: Leukemia, lymphoma
3p
TUMOR TYPE: Kidney
GENE: VHL mutation
5q21
TUMOR TYPE: Colorectal
GENE: APC mutation
9p21
TUMOR TYPE: Bladder, glioblastoma, melanoma
GENE: p16 (cdka2) mutation
11p13
TUMOR TYPE: Wilms’ tumor
GENE: WT1 mutation
11p15
TUMOR TYPE: Wilms’, breast, hepatoblastoma, rhabdomayosarcoma, bladder
GENE: Loss of heteroxygosity
13q
TUMOR TYPE: Breast
GENE: BRCA2, RB1
13q14
TUMOR TYPE: Retinoblastoma, osteosarcoma, small-cell lung
GENE: RB1 mutation
16q
TUMOR TYPE: Breast
GENE: P16 E-cadherin mutation
17q
TUMOR TYPE: Neurofibrosis 1, melanoma, breast
GENE: BRCA 1 MUTATION
17P13
TUMOR TYPE: Breast, colorectal, lung, liver, renal cell, bladder, sarcomas
GENE: p53 mutation
18q21
TUMOR TYPE: Colorectal
GENE: DCC mutation
22q
TUMOR TYPE: Neurofibromatosis 2, meningioma
GENE: NF2 MUTATION